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XXX, 47- STUDENTSHIP. I2y
40. Neither will he (derive such benefit from it),
who uses his knowledge in order to destroy the
reputation of others (by defeating them in argu-
ment).
41. Let no one acquire sacred knowledge, with-
out his teacher’s permission, from another who is
studying divine science.,
42. Acquiring it in that way constitutes theft of
the Veda, and will bring him into hell.
43. Let (a student) never grieve that man from
whom he has obtained worldly knowledge (relating
to poetry, rhetoric, and the like subjects), sacred
knowledge (relating to the Vedas and Vedarigas), or
knowledge of the Supreme Spirit.
44. Of the natural progenitor and the teacher
who imparts the Veda to him, the giver of the Veda
is the more venerable father; for it is the new
existence acquired by his initiation in the Veda,
which will last him both in this life and the next.
45. Let him consider as a merely human exist-
ence that which he owes to his father and mother
uniting from carnal desire and to his being born
from his mother’s womb.
46. That existence which his teacher, who knows
all the Vedas, effects for him through the prescribed
rites of initiation with (his divine mother) the
Gayatri, is a true existence; that existence is
exempt from age and death.
47. He who fills his ears with holy truths, who
that is a minor offence (upapataka ; see below, XXXVII, 20); nor
can it refer to teaching in general, because it is lawful to gain one’s
substance by it; but it refers to those who recite the Veda in
behalf of another, and live by doing so. (Nand.)
41. See XXVIII, 6, and the preceding note.
40. Neither will he (derive such benefit from it),
who uses his knowledge in order to destroy the
reputation of others (by defeating them in argu-
ment).
41. Let no one acquire sacred knowledge, with-
out his teacher’s permission, from another who is
studying divine science.,
42. Acquiring it in that way constitutes theft of
the Veda, and will bring him into hell.
43. Let (a student) never grieve that man from
whom he has obtained worldly knowledge (relating
to poetry, rhetoric, and the like subjects), sacred
knowledge (relating to the Vedas and Vedarigas), or
knowledge of the Supreme Spirit.
44. Of the natural progenitor and the teacher
who imparts the Veda to him, the giver of the Veda
is the more venerable father; for it is the new
existence acquired by his initiation in the Veda,
which will last him both in this life and the next.
45. Let him consider as a merely human exist-
ence that which he owes to his father and mother
uniting from carnal desire and to his being born
from his mother’s womb.
46. That existence which his teacher, who knows
all the Vedas, effects for him through the prescribed
rites of initiation with (his divine mother) the
Gayatri, is a true existence; that existence is
exempt from age and death.
47. He who fills his ears with holy truths, who
that is a minor offence (upapataka ; see below, XXXVII, 20); nor
can it refer to teaching in general, because it is lawful to gain one’s
substance by it; but it refers to those who recite the Veda in
behalf of another, and live by doing so. (Nand.)
41. See XXVIII, 6, and the preceding note.